A few freeze dried plants.

[Paul Ont]

Most plants are secure below a layer of snow right now, but a few felt the full force of -29C (-20f) and I snapped a pic of a couple of them:
This P. aureosulcata is completely freeze dried. Most culms have been bent the ground, but I left a few standing to see what would happen. Ugly. I'd say 10% chance for culm survival. I've seen P. aureosulcata listed as hardy to -20f, I'd say that the leaves went at around -10f....

And here is one of the newly plants Ilex opaca. A northern form, the leaves are a dark green (it's a bad pic)... I'm expecting the leaves to drop but, hopefully, it will leaf out again... I've gotta think that these northern forms would experience -20f occasionally in the wild...



Cheers.

[Cameron_z6a_N.S.]

hopefully they will live

[Okanagan desert-palms]

Paul hopefully you will have more surprises than disappointments come spring.

John

[lucky1]

I hope they both come back in spring from beneath the snow level.
Barb

[Paul Ont]

Thanks guys...
The bamboo will inevitably return, it was more an experiment to see how the culms would take the true zone 5 cold... Not well apparently.
The holly will, I hope, leaf out again in spring... I know it's tough on them to lose their leaves, but these fellas (and gals) are from the northern fringe of their range, so should be able to stand -30C, at least occasionally. I think that the lack of a root system is what's frying them this winter... I would expect that similar cold in 3-4 years time would be shrugged off much more easily.